History of the United States: African American Experience Study Guide
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Course Introduction
This course examines the rich and complex history of African Americans in the United States, tracing their experiences from the era of enslavement through emancipation, Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, and into contemporary times. Students explore the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions of African Americans, as well as the persistent challenges of racism, segregation, and systemic inequality. Through primary sources, literature, and critical analysis, the course highlights the resilience, agency, and influence of African Americans in shaping the nations history and identity.
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African American Odyssey The Combined Volume 5th Edition by Darlene Clark Hine
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Chapter 1: Africa
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Q1) What distinguished the Kingdom of Kongo from many other African kingdoms?
A) Mani Kongo Nzinga Knuwu began a tradition of welcoming early Portuguese missions.
B) The Kongo had no access to water travel.
C) The Kongo launched a holy war against Christian missionaries.
D) The Kongo maintained gender equality.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following are generally regarded as the earliest human civilizations?
A) Mexico and China
B) Egypt and Mesopotamia
C) China and Africa
D) Mesopotamia and China
Answer: B
Q3) The earliest known hominids were the A) australopithecines.
B) Homo sapiens.
C) Homo erectus.
D) paleoanthropologists
Answer: A
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Q1) Why did the British want to take over the slave trade in the late 17th century?
A) Their ongoing war with France demanded a supply of soldiers.
B) They needed labor for tobacco cultivation in Virginia and Maryland.
C) They wanted the taxes paid to the slave trade leader by other European nations.
D) They had begun to establish sugar plantations in Brazil and needed labor.
Answer: B
Q2) How did the early Europeans usually obtain their supply of slaves?
A) They raided along the coast of Africa, forcibly capturing large families.
B) Arabs brought slaves up to the coastal cities in Europe, and they were purchased there.
C) Europeans captured large land areas through warfare, and subjugated entire groups of people into slavery.
D) They obtained their slaves through trade with native African tribes.
Answer: D
Q3) Enslaved people in the Americas became ____________, or personal property. When they became slaves they often lost many of their legal and customary rights.
Answer: chattel
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Chapter 3: Black People in Colonial North America
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Q1) How was the Christianity of the Great Awakening similar to many native African practices?
A) The evangelical Protestant ministers' preaching style was similar to African "spirit possession."
B) The Christian trinity was similar to African beliefs about gods and the creator.
C) Baptism, as a form of rebirth and renewal, was similar to West African water rituals.
D) All of these are correct.
Answer: D
Q2) In the _____________ Rebellion in 1739, newly arrived Africans began a bloody revolt against slavery, killing more than thirty whites and inspiring a spirit of rebellion in South Carolina.
Answer: Stono
Q3) ___________ Rebellion in 1676, a rebellion by former indentured servants demanding political change, pushed concerned wealthy white men in Virginia to use slavery over the older form of labor.
Answer: Bacon's
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Chapter 4: Rising Expectations: African Americans and the
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Q1) How did black women assist in the Patriot cause?
A) Black women joined their husbands in army camps, and defied the British in numerous ways.
B) Black women frequently went into battle with the men.
C) Black women wrote many pamphlets, spoke in public for the Patriot cause, and raised large amounts of money for black soldiers.
D) Because they were seen as physically and mentally weaker, women had no role in the war effort.
Q2) How did Enlightenment thought affect African Americans in the 1760s and 1770s?
A) African Americans were unaffected by Enlightenment thought, since they were not allowed to read and write.
B) They began several coordinated, widespread violent rebellions in both the North and the South.
C) They filed lawsuits in the North, escaped from the South, and protested in large numbers.
D) Generally, large numbers of free blacks left for Africa in the late 1700s.
Q3) Black Loyalists were most common and numerous in the colonies of ______________ and ______________ during the Revolution.
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Q1) Which two states abolished slavery immediately during the 1770s and the 1780s?
A) Vermont and Connecticut
B) New York and New Jersey
C) Pennsylvania and Rhode Island
D) Vermont and Massachusetts
Q2) What statement is true about black service during the War of 1812?
A) They only served on the American side, with many incidents of bravery.
B) They refused to serve, thinking that they would not benefit a nation that kept some of their race in bondage.
C) They were considered an "internal foe" by some white Americans.
D) All of these are correct.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true about the southern reaction to slave violence?
A) They refused to enact laws and practices to make slavery harsher.
B) They generally reacted passively, as the uprisings were quickly put down..
C) They began to be much more suspicious of foreigners and outsiders, including northerners.
D) They began to liberate more "troublesome" slaves and force them to move North.
Q4) What was the name of the first anti-slavery society in the world?
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Chapter 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom
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Q1) What was a primary advantage of being a skilled slave?
A) They had authority and power over the other slaves, and could limit punishment.
B) They were often looked at by other slaves as religious leaders.
C) It was possible for them to get a taste of freedom and independence through their skills.
D) It was quite easy for them to buy their own freedom with the wages they earned.
Q2) A slaves' diet in the period between 1820 and 1860
A) was equal to whites' diet, and not far from today's standards, since they got a lot of fresh vegetables.
B) was poor by today's standards, but not by the standards of the rest of the world at that time.
C) generally was very European in style, since the master refused to let them cook anything else.
D) Was close to today's standards in nutrition, but not in quantity of food.
Q3) Who was the most famous of the animal tricksters found in African-American folktales?
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Chapter 7: Free Black People in Antebellum America
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Q1) Which African-American singer earned the nickname "The Black Swan"?
Q2) What were Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist leaders able to do to Massachusetts' public schools?
A) Get city leaders to allow all-black schools to be established.
B) Desegregate the schools, including those in Boston, by 1855.
C) Push for African history to be taught as well as white European history.
D) Get city leaders to pay black teachers the same as white teachers.
Q3) What types of organizations did black women seem attracted to in the antebellum period?
A) women's rights organizations, especially those stressing the right to vote
B) poetry and reading clubs
C) mutual aid organizations, especially those that helped the poor and disadvantaged
D) groups that worked for the protection of nature and the environment
Q4) Why was it difficult for blacks to find jobs in the North after 1820?
A) There were very few jobs in the North after 1820, due to an economic depression.
B) White immigration increased, and employers preferred to hire whites.
C) Racism began in the North only after 1820.
D) .Industry, especially textiles, began to shift to the south.
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Chapter 8: Opposition to Slavery
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Q1) What "first" did female abolitionist leader Maria Stewart accomplish?
A) She was the first woman to attempt to vote.
B) She was the first woman to run for Congress from Massachusetts.
C) She was the first American woman to address male audiences in public.
D) She was the first black woman to publish a work of literature.
Q2) What Protestant denomination is credited with beginning the antislavery movement in the North?
A) Methodist
B) Quaker
C) Baptist
D) Episcopalian
Q3) Who initially supported the American Colonization Society?
A) all northern whites
B) some upper South slaveholders
C) some atheists who had formed an antislavery group
D) several former presidents, including James Madison
Q4) What is a term used for people who favored getting rid of slavery throughout the country?
Q5) Other than Africa, where did some African Americans choose to migrate?
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Chapter 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance
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Q1) What did Joseph Cinque and Madison Washington have in common?
A) They both led successful revolts aboard ships to gain their freedom.
B) They both led unsuccessful revolts, were killed by the American government, and became martyrs.
C) They were both successful black lawyers who defended slavery.
D) They were both white men who fought for greater restrictions on slaves.
Q2) What was a main difference between the Liberty Party and the "Old Organization" of the AASS?
A) The "Old Organization" stopped participating in politics, and the Liberty Party was an official third party in the American political system.
B) The Liberty Party stopped participating in politics, and the "Old Organization" was an official third party in the American political system.
C) The "Old Organization" became far more prominent in politics.
D) The Liberty Party wanted to destroy the Constitution, since it promoted and defended slavery.
Q3) What was the name of Frederick Douglass's influential newspaper?
Q4) What was the usual destination of the slaves on the underground railroad?
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Q1) What did John Brown want to accomplish with his army during 1859?
A) to keep the United States together during the Civil War
B) to establish a separate, independent black nation within the United States
C) to bring Texas into the union
D) to invade the South and end slavery
Q2) What was discovered in California in 1848 that caused settlers to pour in from all over the country?
A) cotton
B) gold
C) oil
D) buffalo
Q3) How did some northern communities react to fugitive slave laws prior to 1850?
A) They tried to comply with the laws entirely.
B) They passed personal liberty laws, making it illegal for law enforcement officials to capture runaways.
C) They declared the laws null and void.
D) They decided to fire on Fort Sumter, and start the Civil War.
Q4) What was the name of the proslavery groups who were fighting for slavery in Kansas?
Q5) Which was the first state to secede?
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Chapter 11: Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
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Q1) What did Robert E. Lee think about enlisting blacks in the military?
A) He thought that it was a very poor idea, since no slave would support the Confederacy.
B) He refused to hear any arguments about it.
C) He favored it, since as slaves they were accustomed to obedience and discipline.
D) No southerner ever thought about enlisting blacks in the military.
Q2) What was not a part of the terms of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
A) It would free those slaves still in bondage in areas under rebellion on January 1, 1863.
B) It gave the Confederacy until January 1, 1863 to come back into the Union.
C) If the Confederacy returned to the Union by January 1, 1863, they could keep their slaves.
D) It allowed slaves to leave the country to obtain freedom if they wished.
Q3) Where were many of the members of the Second South Carolina Volunteers from?
A) New York
B) Georgia and Florida
C) Massachusetts
D) South Carolina
Q4) Who was the Confederate officer in charge of the Fort Pillow massacre?
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Chapter 12: The Meaning of Freedom: the Promise of Reconstruction
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Q1) What was the purpose of the Union Leagues in the South?
A) They were racist white organizations designed to stop blacks from gaining rights.
B) They were interracial organizations working for racial harmony.
C) They were social and sometimes political organizations, in which blacks often played a prominent role.
D) They were business organizations for blacks.
Q2) Why did Andrew Johnson veto the Freedmen's Bureau Bill?
A) He did not think that it went far enough in granting rights to blacks.
B) He felt it would increase the federal bureaucracy too much.
C) He hoped to gain control of the agency for himself, rather than leave it in the hands of Congress.
D) He wanted blacks to focus on access to land and jobs, not the vote.
Q3) Which of the following was a black college established after the Civil War?
A) Morehouse
B) Hampton
C) Cheyney University
D) Wilberforce University
Q4) The ________________ became the most important institution to blacks after Reconstruction.
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Chapter 13: The Meaning of Freedom: the Failure of Reconstruction,
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Q1) Which of the following is not true about the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871?
A) They made it a federal crime to interfere with someone's right to vote.
B) They authorized the president to send in federal troops if necessary.
C) They authorized the president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus if necessary.
D) They were actually not put into effect because of white racism in the South.
Q2) What is true about the constitutions developed by the Republican-dominated conventions?
A) They allowed all blacks to vote.
B) They did not disfranchise huge numbers of former Confederates.
C) They generally provided few guarantees to blacks.
D) None of these are true.
Q3) ______________ College was the first historically black state university, founded in 1872.
Q4) Which of the following statements is not true about black officeholders during Reconstruction?
A) They were always well-qualified for their office.
B) Only a small minority had attended college.
C) Some had been free before the war; some had been slaves.
D) Farmers and workers were well represented.
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Chapter 14: White Supremacy Triumphant: African
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Q1) What was the result of the popularity of the Populist Party among blacks in the South?
A) Blacks were able to gain substantial numbers of political offices and dominate politics in the South.
B) Since blacks were completely excluded from formal participation in politics, they could not vote for Populists, even if they supported them.
C) Southerners realized that blacks were a potent political force and that they would have to share power politically.
D) It heightened fears of southerners that blacks might gain political power.
Q2) What was the problem, as viewed by many southern states, of voting laws like literacy tests, poll taxes, and property qualifications?
A) They thought the laws were too subtle and that voting should just be outlawed directly.
B) Since quite a few blacks owned property, they could still vote.
C) Since blacks could be voting registrars, they could simply override the tests and allow anyone in.
D) They might possibly also eliminate poor, illiterate white voters as well as black voters.
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Chapter 15: Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy
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Q1) Why is Madam C. J. Walker significant?
A) She was a wealthy aristocrat from France, who financially supported black protest against segregation.
B) She was an influential author and poet.
C) She became a very wealthy businesswoman, selling a hair-care product to black women.
D) She was the first African-American woman to vote.
Q2) In what sport did white Americans find the presence of blacks particularly disturbing, and yet they never officially banned interracial activity?
A) baseball
B) football
C) basketball
D) boxing
Q3) What was the "white man's burden"?
A) the far greater benefits of wealth that white men had
B) the burden of political power and technological development
C) the duty of superior, more civilized white countries to educate and bring culture to backward, inferior races
D) a belief of some radical blacks that whites were actually the inferior race
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Chapter 16: Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African
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Q1) What type of political influence did Booker T. Washington have?
A) Very little, since white politicians of the time all felt blacks were socially inferior.
B) Washington actually had tremendous influence for a black man at the time. President Teddy Roosevelt respected him, and consulted with him regularly on political appointments.
C) Washington, like most blacks, was generally ignored by whites at this time.
D) Very little, since he felt blacks should not agitate for political equality.
Q2) How did the French troops and people feel about black soldiers?
A) The French were just as racist as white Americans, often refusing them even ammunition for their guns.
B) They praised their ability and courage, and asked for more black troops.
C) The French virtually ignored the blacks in France, since they were able to do so little in combat.
D) The French organized and "liberated" black troops from the army, giving them asylum in France and full voting and social privileges.
Q3) What was the first college sorority for black women?
Q4) What was the first college fraternity for black men?
Q5) What was the motto of the NACW?
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Chapter 17: African Americans and the 1920s
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Q1) What did authors like Jessie Fauset and W. E. B. Du Bois think the purpose of black literature should be?
A) to promote a positive image of blacks, and help resolve racial conflicts
B) to be very political, and stay away from fiction or imagined situations
C) that art should portray ordinary, even poor black people, with their good and bad sides
D) that art should be an expression of black nationalism, like Garvey was expressing
Q2) Why was the Pullman Company an early area for black labor organizing?
A) They provided the lowest wages available for any blacks.
B) By the 1920s, it was the largest employer of black people in America.
C) They utilized blacks' educational skills very well, in engineering and developing technology for railroads.
D) They were generally not discriminatory, and allowed blacks great freedom in their jobs.
Q3) Which of the following was a play written by black playwrights?
A) Chocolate Dandies
B) Emperor Jones
C) Othello
D) Porgy and Bess
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Q1) Which of the following was not a New Deal welfare program?
A) the Civilian Conservation Corps
B) the Civil Works Administration
C) the National Labor Relations Act
D) the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Q2) What was a goal of the Detroit Housewives' League, and housewives' leagues established in other cities?
A) to gain women the right to vote
B) to help increase black economic opportunity through directing black women's purchasing power
C) to help children have cleaner schools
D) to gain equal pay for teachers in black schools
Q3) What did W. E. B. Du Bois begin to criticize the NAACP for in 1934?
A) not filing enough legal cases to end segregation
B) being too divided and not helping Marcus Garvey before he was deported
C) not putting enough emphasis on economic development for blacks
D) for their record of violent protest against segregation
Q4) Who was the first black Democrat to ever win a House of Representatives seat?
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Q5) Who was central to the NAACP's effectiveness during the 1930s in chipping away at segregation through the court system?
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Chapter 19: Meanings of Freedom: Culture and Society in the 1930s
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Q1) Which of the following was not a difficulty for African Americans wanting to study classical music in St. Louis?
A) No institutions for classical study existed in the city for blacks.
B) Whites tended to relegate blacks to playing ragtime or jazz.
C) African Americans often had to take jobs in demeaning roles in productions.
D) Very few cultural opportunities of any kind existed in the Midwestern city.
Q2) Where was the central, most vibrant place for the development of black culture in the 1930s and 1940s?
A) Harlem
B) Chicago
C) Philadelphia
D) New Orleans
Q3) Who replaced Wright as "best known black American male writer"?
A) Ralph Ellison
B) Toni Morrison
C) James Baldwin
D) Langston Hughes.
Q4) Where was the center of the black music world in the 1930s and 1940s?
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Q5) What did the development of black culture during the 1930s and 1940s help African Americans counter?
Chapter 20: The World War Ii Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1936-1948
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Q1) What area saw the most dramatic increase in black population during World War II?
Q2) How did events in Ethiopia in 1935 and in Spain in 1936-1937 affect how some African Americans thought about world events leading up to World War II?
A) African Americans supported anti-fascist movements in both countries, and the events demonstrated the threats of that type of government.
B) All African Americans were much like whites at this time, uninterested in world affairs.
C) They demonstrated that Africans in certain areas could gain significant political rights and power.
D) They demonstrated that political power only came at the price of extreme violence.
Q3) In what direction did Du Bois think the NAACP should focus after World War II?
A) toward economic gains for blacks
B) toward winning independence for African nations and abolishing colonialism
C) toward desegregating the armed forces
D) toward winning rights for black women, and feminism in general
Q4) Who led the Dixiecrat Party revolt in 1948?
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Chapter 21: The Freedom Movement
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Q1) Who was chosen to lead the new Montgomery Improvement Association?
A) E. D. Nixon
B) Rosa Parks
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Jo Ann Robinson
Q2) What did the Supreme Court decide in the case of Browder v. Gayle?
A) Whites had a right to segregate anything they wanted to under the Fourteenth Amendment.
B) Blacks had no right to sue a private facility for discrimination.
C) Segregation in public transportation was unconstitutional.
D) Law schools had to be open to both blacks and whites.
Q3) Why did students form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, rather than join the SCLC?
A) They thought that Martin Luther King was a communist.
B) They didn't agree with the type of leadership structure of the SCLC.
C) They thought that older people did not know anything about segregation.
D) All of these answers are correct.
Q4) Who was responsible for the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers?
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Chapter 22: Black Nationalism, Black Power, Black Arts, 1965-1976
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Q1) Who was the leader of the Vietnamese Communists in 1945 and after?
A) Kim Il Sung
B) Ho Chi Minh
C) Vo Nguyen Giap
D) Nguyen Minh
Q2) Who found jazz music the most important and influential during the black arts movement?
A) the general black population
B) black intellectuals
C) white intellectuals
D) black women
Q3) What event is generally seen as the beginning of the second phase of the black student movement?
A) the Attica Prison Revolt
B) the first sit-ins in the 1960s
C) the Orangeburg Massacre
D) the death of Malcolm X
Q4) Who was the first black woman to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list?
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Chapter 23: African Americans at the Millennium
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Q1) Which of the following was not an achievement of the women's movement of the 1970s?
A) Women secured passage of a constitutional amendment prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.
B) Women gained access to affirmative action programs in higher education.
C) Women gained the right to a legal abortion.
D) Women pushed for equality in the workplace.
Q2) How was the cultural flowering of the 1980s and 1990s different from that in the 1960s and 1970s?
A) The art included more political flavor than before.
B) Literature was mainly aimed toward poetry in languages other than English.
C) Film began to be used as a political tool and art form.
D) The 1980s and 1990s included women, especially novelists, to a greater degree.
Q3) Which of the following is not true about rap music?
A) It is often composed of tracks from different songs.
B) It draws inspiration from earlier versions of black music.
C) Many critics thought that it was only a fad, and would fade away quickly.
D) It tended to mimic some of the earlier trends with bebop.
Q4) For what did Pope John Paul II apologize in 1993?
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Q1) On what country did many African Americans focus their efforts during the 1980s?
A) South Africa
B) Zimbabwe
C) Yugoslavia
D) Germany
Q2) What was the idea behind Ronald Reagan's "trickle-down" economics?
A) It would help black families by giving them small amounts of money.
B) It gave tax breaks to the wealthy, who were then supposed to spend that money to improve the economy and benefit middle- and lower-class people.
C) It was a very complicated theory that involved a variety of levels of tax increases and decreases, and property taxes to achieve maximum growth.
D) Trickle down economics asserted that water conservation measures needed to be implemented to save money and resources.
Q3) What event is called the "Emmett Till" moment for the hip-hop generation?
A) the murder of Tupac Shakur
B) the election of Barack Obama
C) Hurricane Katrina
D) the overthrow of Saddam Hussein
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